Lieutenant Governor (L-G) V K Saxena on Wednesday advised Chief Minister Atishi to call a special session of the Delhi Assembly on Thursday or Friday to table 14 Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) reports.
Calling the delay in tabling the 14 reports a “deliberate lapse”, Saxena said the Delhi government had convened only five Assembly sessions in five years.
“In the normal course, a legislature is convened for at least three sessions in a year but it is a travesty of legislative practice that the Delhi government convened only five sessions in five years,” he wrote.
The L-G said that the third part of the fifth session of the Delhi Legislative Assembly was adjourned sine die on December 4 but yet not prorogued.
“You, being the leader of the House, in consultation with the Speaker, may convene a special sitting of the Assembly for laying these CAG reports on December 19 or December 20, given the inordinate delay in the matter and that elections for the eighth Legislative Assembly are impending,” he wrote. The L-G added that ordinarily, he would not have indicated a time frame for calling a special sitting of the House on short notice, but the situation was extraordinary as the term of the current assembly and that of the elected government is set to expire in February 2025.
Earlier, Delhi BJP MLAs had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court, seeking a direction to the AAP government to table the reports in the Assembly.
Saxena also said that he had been consistently writing to Atishi and her predecessor Arvind Kejriwal, reminding them of the criticality of this fundamental obligation.
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